African American Newspapers

This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

Never before has such important original source material—written by African-Americans for African-Americans—been readily available for research and fresh interpretation by historians, sociologists, educators and students.

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UNC libraries and their users consider Accessible Archives products to be important e-resources for supporting research in African American studies and on the history of the American South and, as a consequence, consistently have made their acquisition a priority.

Luke SwindlerCoordinator of General CollectionsUniversity of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill Libraries

When a student needed the exact date for Frederick Douglass’ speech ‘What the Black Man Wants,’ given at the 1865 annual meeting of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society — was it before or after Lincoln’s assassination? – the only reference with the actual speech and date was Accessible Archives’ The Civil War. Thank you!

Edward C. OettingHistory/PoliticalScience BibliographerArizona State University

What you have is one of the most important developments in early American research since microfilm.

Dr. James P. Whittenburg, Department of History,The College of William and Mary

I wish all my vendors were as diligent about our account as you are about Wesleyan’s.